Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain, 1750–1884

AvSeth T. Reno

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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This book questions when exactly the Anthropocene began, uncovering an “early Anthropocene” in the literature, art, and science of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. In chapters organized around the classical elements of Earth, Fire, Water, and Air, Seth Reno shows how literary writers of the Industrial Era borrowed from scientists to capture the changes they witnessed to weather, climate, and other systems. Poets linked the hellish flames of industrial furnaces to the magnificent, geophysical force of volcanic explosions. Novelists and painters depicted cloud formations and polluted urban atmospheres as part of the emerging discipline of climate science. In so doing, the subjects of Reno’s study—some famous, some more obscure—gave form to a growing sense of humans as geophysical agents, capable of reshaping Earth itself. Situated at the interaction of literary studies, environmental studies, and science studies, Early Anthropocene Literature inBritain tells the story of how writers heralded, and wrestled with, Britain’s role in sparking the now-familiar “epoch of humans.”

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-08-20
Mått:148 x 210 x 15 mm
Vikt:346 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
Antal sidor:246
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030532482

Utforska kategorier

Historia: teori och metod inom Historia och arkeologi
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Litteraturteori inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Seth T. Reno is Associate Professor of English at Auburn University Montgomery, USA. He is author of Amorous Aesthetics: Intellectual Love in Romantic Poetry and Poetics, 1788–1853 (2019), editor of Romanticism and Affect Studies (2018), and co-editor of Wordsworth and the Green Romantics: Affect and Ecology in the Nineteenth Century (2016).

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“Seth T. Reno’s Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain, 1750–1884 cuts across more than a century’s worth of aesthetic and scientific cultural production … . Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain surveys a wide range of writings that self-consciously chronicle … . Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain surveys an incredibly rich archive and observes numerous connections between anthropogenic enterprise and geophysical processes.” (Devin M. Garofalo, Victorian Studies, Vol. 65 (2), 2023)

Innehållsförteckning

1. The Cradle of the Anthropocene.- 2. Volcanoes and Industrialization in Early Anthropocene Literature.- 3. Rivers, Canals, and Commerce in the Early Anthropocene.- 4. Clouds and Climate Change in the Nineteenth Century.- Epilogue: Modernism and the Anthropocene.